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Home Front: Politix
ACORN Phone Lines Disconnected, Offices Shuttered, Out of Money
2010-02-22
What happened to all the money the organization is supposed to get from the stimulus bill via HUD and state and local governments? Are we sure this isn't just ACORN's version of splitting off fighting wings under new names?
I'm betting that's what it is -- ACORN's name is poison so the same actors will organize under a different banner and proceed to do what they've always done. It's the way of the Left.
That story's already in tomorrow's hopper...
The embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and local-chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group, an official close to the group confirmed.

"ACORN has dissolved as a national structure of state organizations," said a senior official close to the group, who declined to be identified by name because of the fierce conservative attacks on the group that began when a conservative filmmaker caught some staffers of its tax advisory arms on tape appearing to offer advice on incorporating a prostitution business.

The videos proved a rallying point for conservatives who had long accused the group of fomenting voting fraud. Though the videos did not produce criminal charges, they appear to have been fatal to the national organization.

"Consistent with what the internal reccomendations have been, each of the states are developing plans for reconstitution independence and self-sufficiency," said the official, citing ACORN's "diminished resources, damage to the brand, unprecedented attacks."

The new organizations, he said "will be constituted under new banners and new bylaws and new governance," he said, consistent with the recommendations of an outside panel.

Much of the group's strength lay in its local chapters in places like New York, which appear to be continuing to operate as normal. New York's City Hall News reported today that the local group there had re-emerged under the name "New York Communities for Change."

Posted by:War On Terror

#5  Well sure: people believe Drudge, after all ...
Posted by: Steve White   2010-02-22 17:22  

#4  Oh, and the above-linked article is highlighted in red on Drudge, which as I recall gets considerably more views than the New York Times, nowadays.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-02-22 17:08  

#3  BigGovernment.com has an article about the name changes of the local ACORN affiliates. Things are different, now that the alternative media can get the news out via the internet. I don't think the ACORN central committee members are quite up to speed on the implications.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-02-22 17:06  

#2  My predictions:
-ACORN-US: replaced by a 'shadow leadership' for coordination
-Money moved about via SEIU
-No big change except the possibility of defeat in detail; but it would be a hard slog
-Note they mention the New York office, not Chicago. Obama will be shielded from his contact with them
Posted by: Free Radical   2010-02-22 16:48  

#1  Remember this name. Community Organizations International, or COI. Remember that new name. Remember that new acronym. Nothing has changed.

The 'weeping' is for 'show', only.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2010-02-22 16:35  

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